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    Inventing English a portable history of the language / by Lerer, Seth, 1955-

    Published 2007
    Table of Contents: “…Introduction: finding English, finding us -- Caedmon learns to sing : Old English and the origins of poetry -- From Beowulf to Wulfstan : the language of Old English literature -- In this year : the politics of language and the end of Old English -- From kingdom to realm : middle English in a French world -- Lord of this langage : Chaucer's English -- I is an Ille a millere as are ye : Middle English dialects -- The great vowel shift and the changing character of English -- Chancery, Caxton, and the making of English prose -- I do, I will : Shakespeare's English -- A universal hubbub wild : new words and worlds in early modern English -- Visible speech : the Orthoepists and the origins of standard English -- A harmless drudge : Samuel Johnson and the making of the dictionary -- Horrid, hooting stanzas : Lexicography and literature in American English -- Antses in the sugar : dialect and regionalism in American English -- Hello, dude : Mark Twain and the making of the American idiom -- Ready for the funk : African American English and its impact -- Pioneers through an untrodden forest : the Oxford English dictionary and its readers -- Listening to Private Ryan : war and language -- He speaks in your voice : everybody's English.…”
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    Protecting rights without a Bill of Rights institutional performance and reform in Australia /

    Published 2006
    Table of Contents: “…Australian exceptionalism : rights protection without a Bill of Rights / Brian Galligan, F.L. (Ted) Morton -- The performance of Australian legislatures in protecting rights / John Uhr -- Improving legislative scrutiny of proposed laws to enhance basic rights, parliamentary democracy, and the quality of law-making / Bryan Horrigan -- The performance of administrative law in protecting rights / Robin Creyke -- Australia's constitutional rights and the problem of interpretive disagreement / Adrienne Stone -- Rights and citizenship in law and public discourse / Helen Irving -- Chained to the past : the psychological terra nullius of Australia's public institutions / Megan Davis -- Constitutional property rights in Australia : reconciling individual rights and the common good / Simon Evans -- American judicial review in perspective / Robert Nagel -- The unfulfilled promise of dialogic constitutionalism : judicial-legislative relationships under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms / Christopher Manfredi -- A modest (but robust) defence of statutory bills of rights / Jeremy Webber -- Australia's first Bill of Rights : the Australian Capital Territory's Human Rights Act / Hilary Charlesworth -- An Australian rights council / George Winterton -- Human rights strategies : an Australian alternative / Tom Campbell.…”
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